Projects of the Sousa Foundation include funding for the main stage at the
Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C., honor bands, conducting competitions, awards for outstanding performing ensembles, and bringing attention to historic sites in band history. Many of the foundation's awards are funded through an endowment from Louis and Virginia Sudler, and are collectively known as the "Louis Sudler Awards of Merit".
The Sousa National High School Honors Band Founded in 1981, the Sousa National High School Honors Band is an ensemble made up of roughly 100
high school junior and
senior musicians, selected from the top applicants worldwide. The band performs semi-regularly at a variety of locations around the United States.
The Sudler Flag of Honor The Sudler Flag of Honor is an award bestowed to identify, recognize and honor high school band programs internationally that have demonstrated particularly significant high standards of excellence in concert activities over a period of several years. No school may win the award twice under the same director. The official description of a deserving band is: The band must have achieved and maintained a high standard of excellence in the concert area over a period of several years. The concert band will have placed itself in situations where there has been opportunity for evaluation by qualified persons or has been rated "superior" at state, regional, or national levels in concert activities. The band program must offer its participants a complete and balanced program of musical activities including concert, solo, ensemble, and marching areas. The band should have performed at regional, state, national, and professional meetings of significance. These can include but are not limited to state music conventions, regional or national MENC meetings, and state or national band association conventions. The director must have been incumbent in his/her position for at least seven years, including the current year. A number of the students in the band should have participated in district and all-state honor bands or similar all-area groups. The Sudler Flag of Honor is typically considered to be the highest award a high school band can achieve. Sudler Flag laureate bands are automatically included on the
Historic Roll of Honor. The following are the recipients of the Sudler Flag since its inception in 1983: The following are the recipients of the Sudler Cup since its inception in 1985: the award does not represent the winner of any championship, but rather a band surrounded by great tradition that has become respected nationally. No school may be honored with the award twice. According to the official description of the trophy: The purpose of the Sudler Trophy is to identify and recognize collegiate marching bands of particular excellence who have made outstanding contributions to the American way of life. The Sudler Trophy is awarded annually to a college or university marching band which has demonstrated the highest musical standards and innovative marching routines and ideas, and which has made important contributions to the advancement of the performance standards of college marching bands over a period of years. The trophy measures exactly from the base to the tip of the drum major's mace; precisely the size of a standard 8 to 5 step in marching. The following are the recipients of the Sudler Trophy since its inception in 1982: • 1987 –
Enterprise High School,
Enterprise, Alabama • 1987 –
Federal Hocking High School,
Stewart, Ohio • 1987 –
Mountain Crest High School,
Hyrum, Utah • 1987 – Tenri Seminary High School,
Nara, Japan • 1988 –
Cambridge High School,
Cambridge, Ohio • 1988 –
Clovis High School,
Clovis, California • 1988 –
John Overton High School,
Nashville, Tennessee • 1989 –
Grove City High School,
Grove City, Ohio • 1989 –
Mills E. Godwin High School,
Richmond, Virginia • 1989 –
Manzano High School,
Albuquerque, New Mexico • 1989 –
Mt. Juliet High School,
Mount Juliet, Tennessee • 1989 –
Neuces Canyon High School,
Barksdale, Texas • 1989 –
Newton High School,
Pleasant Hill, Ohio • 1989 –
Norwin High School,
North Huntingdon Township, Pennsylvania • 1990 –
Clinton High School,
Clinton, Mississippi • 1991 –
Lafayette High School,
Lexington, Kentucky • 1992 –
Coronado High School Band,
El Paso, Texas • 1992 –
John Overton High School,
Nashville, Tennessee • 1992 –
North Hardin High School,
Radcliff, Kentucky • 1992 –
Pope High School,
Marietta, Georgia • 1993 –
Fred C. Beyer High School,
Modesto, California • 1993 –
Sumter High School,
Sumter, South Carolina • 1994 –
McGavock High School,
Nashville, Tennessee • 1996 –
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School,
Lexington, Kentucky • 1997 –
Marian Catholic High School,
Chicago Heights, Illinois • 1998 –
Duncanville High School,
Duncanville, Texas • 1998 –
Lafayette High School,
Lexington, Kentucky • 1998 –
Lassiter High School,
Marietta, Georgia • 1998 – Pupuk Kaltim School,
Bontang,
Kaltim,
Indonesia • 1999 –
Broken Arrow High School,
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma • 1999 – Harrison County High School,
Cynthiana, Kentucky • 1999 –
Westfield High School,
Houston, Texas • 2000 –
Aimachi Marching Band,
Handa, Aichi, Japan • 2000 –
Lawrence Central High School,
Indianapolis, Indiana • 2001 –
James F. Byrnes High School,
Duncan, South Carolina • 2002 – Kashiwa City High School,
Kashiwa, Japan • 2002 –
Kennesaw Mountain High School,
Kennesaw, Georgia • 2002 – Yokohama Marching Band,
Yokohama, Japan • 2003 – Allen High School,
Allen, Texas • 2003 –
Seminole High School,
Seminole, Florida • 2004 –
Collins Hill High School,
Suwanee, Georgia • 2004 –
L.D. Bell High School,
Hurst, Texas • 2004 – Owasso High School, Owasso, Oklahoma • 2005 –
James Bowie High School,
Austin, Texas • 2005 – Show and Marchingband Kunst & Genoegen,
Leiden, Netherlands • 2005 –
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School,
Lexington, Kentucky • 2005 –
Ronald Reagan High School,
San Antonio, Texas • 2006 –
Cedar Park High School,
Cedar Park, Texas • 2006 –
Langham Creek High School,
Houston, Texas • 2007 –
Avon High School,
Avon, Indiana • 2007 –
Marcus High School,
Flower Mound, Texas • 2008 –
Broken Arrow High School,
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma • 2008 –
Coppell High School,
Coppell, Texas • 2008 – Musica Grato High School,
Himi, Toyama, Japan • 2008 –
Tarpon Springs High School,
Tarpon Springs, Florida • 2009 –
American Fork High School,
American Fork, Utah • 2009 – Chonkanyanukoon High School, Amphur Muang, Chomburi,
Thailand • 2009 –
Walton High School,
Marietta, Georgia • 2009 –
The Woodlands High School,
The Woodlands, Texas • 2010 –
Hebron High School,
Carrollton, Texas • 2010 –
Westlake High School,
Austin, Texas • 2011 – Sultanah Asma Marching Band,
Kedah, Malaysia • 2011 –
Homestead High School,
Fort Wayne, Indiana • 2011 –
William Mason High School,
Mason, Ohio • 2012 –
Carmel High School,
Carmel, Indiana • 2012 –
Plano East Senior High School,
Plano, Texas • 2013 –
Blue Springs High School,
Blue Springs, Missouri • 2013 – Calgary Stampede Showband,
Calgary, Alberta • 2013 –
James Bowie High School,
Austin, Texas • 2013 –
Kanagawa Prefecture Shonandai High School,
Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan • 2014 –
Claudia Taylor Johnson High School,
San Antonio, Texas • 2014 –
Dobyns-Bennett High School,
Kingsport, Tennessee • 2014 –
Franklin High School,
Franklin, Tennessee • 2014 –
Round Rock High School,
Round Rock, Texas • 2015 –
Broken Arrow High School,
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma • 2015 –
Keller High School,
Keller, Texas • 2016 –
Castle High School,
Newburgh, Indiana • 2016 –
Chien Kuo Senior High School,
Taipei City, Taiwan • 2016 –
Keat Hwa Secondary School,
Alor Setar, Malaysia • 2016 –
Russell County High School,
Russell Springs, Kentucky • 2016 –
Vista Murrieta High School,
Murrieta, California • 2017 –
Flower Mound High School,
Flower Mound, Texas • 2017 –
Greendale High School,
Greendale, Wisconsin • 2017 –
Morton High School,
Morton, Illinois • 2017 –
Vista Ridge High School,
Cedar Park, Texas • 2018 –
Adair County High School,
Columbia, Kentucky • 2018 –
Carmel High School,
Carmel, Indiana • 2018 –
North Lamar High School,
Paris, Texas • 2018 –
The Woodlands High School,
The Woodlands, Texas • 2019 –
Mineola High School,
Mineola, Texas • 2019 –
Vandegrift High School,
Austin, Texas • 2021 –
Brownsburg High School,
Brownsburg, Indiana • 2021 –
Southlake Carroll High School,
Southlake, Texas • 2021 –
Wakeland High School,
Frisco, Texas • 2021 –
Murray High School (Kentucky),
Murray, Kentucky • 2021 –
Canton High School (Texas),
Canton, Texas • 2022 –
William Mason High School,
Mason, Ohio • 2022 –
Fishers High School,
Fishers, Indiana • 2022 –
Beechwood High School,
Fort Mitchell, Kentucky • 2022 –
Anderson County High School,
Lawrenceburg, Kentucky • 2022 – Door Vriendschap Sterk,
Katwijk, Netherlands • 2023 –
Bentonville High School,
Bentonville, Arkansas • 2023 –
Bridgeland High School,
Cypress, Texas • 2023 –
O'Fallon Township High School,
O'Fallon, Illinois • 2023 –
Waxahachie High School,
Waxahachie, Texas • 2023 –
Estill County High School,
Irvine, Kentucky • 2024 –
Marcus High School,
Flower Mound, Texas • 2024 –
Seven Lakes High School,
Katy, Texas • 2024 –
Krum High School,
Krum, Texas • 2025 –
Cedar Park High School,
Cedar Park, Texas • 2025 –
Dripping Springs High School,
Dripping Springs, Texas • 2025 –
Rouse High School,
Leander, Texas • 2025 –
Kiski Area High School,
Vandergrift, Pennsylvania • 2025 – Raymondville High School,
Raymondville, Texas • 2025 — Bassett High School,
Bassett, Virginia The Sudler Silver Scroll The Sudler Scroll recognizes and honors those
community bands that have demonstrated particularly high standards of excellence in concert activities over a period of several years, and which have played a significant and leading role in the cultural and musical environment in their respective communities. Those community concert bands which have won the award include: •
Northshore Concert Band,
Evanston, Illinois (1987) • Lawrence City Band,
Lawrence, Kansas (1988) • Kiel Municipal Band,
Kiel, Wisconsin (1990) • Tacoma Concert Band,
Tacoma, Washington (1990) • Allentown Band,
Allentown, Pennsylvania (1990) • Naperville Municipal Band,
Naperville, Illinois (1991) • Sarasota Mobile Home Band,
Sarasota, Florida (1993) • Austin Symphonic Band,
Austin, Texas (1993) • Racine Municipal Band,
Racine, Wisconsin (1994) • Lansing Concert Band,
Lansing, Michigan (1994) • Texas Wind Symphony,
Arlington, Texas (1995) • Medalist Concert Band,
Bloomington, Minnesota (1995) • Kent Stark Concert Band,
Canton, Ohio (1996) • Scottsdale Concert Band,
Scottsdale, Arizona (1996) • Ridgewood Concert Band,
Ridgewood, New Jersey (1996) • Tara Winds Concert Band,
Hampton, Georgia (1996) • Coastal Communities Concert Band,
San Diego, California (1997) • Lakeland Civic Band,
Kirtland, Ohio (1997) • Twin City Concert Band,
West Monroe, Louisiana (1997) • San Jose Wind Symphony,
San Jose, California (1998) • Corpus Christi Wind Symphony,
Corpus Christi, Texas (1998) • Community Band of Brevard,
Brevard County, Florida (1999) • Lafayette Concert Band,
Lafayette, Louisiana (1999) • Virginia Grand Military Band,
Arlington, Virginia (2000) • Allentown Band,
Allentown, Pennsylvania (1990) • Lafayette Citizens Band,
Lafayette, Indiana (2001) • Pensacola Civic Band,
Pensacola, Florida (2002) • Tempe Wind Ensemble,
Tempe, Arizona (2002) • Atlanta Wind Symphony,
Atlanta, Georgia (2003) • Houston Symphonic Band,
Houston, Texas (2003) • Penn Central Wind Band,
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (2004) • City of Fairfax Band,
Fairfax, Virginia (2004) • West Michigan Winds,
Muskegon, Michigan (2005) • Knightwind Ensemble,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2005) • South Jersey Area Wind Ensemble,
Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey (2006) • Oregon Symphonic Band,
Portland, Oregon (2007) • Tennessee Concert Band,
Knoxville, Tennessee (2007) •
East Winds Symphonic Band,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2008) • Minnesota Symphonic Winds,
Edina, Minnesota (2009) • Cobb Wind Symphony,
Marietta, Georgia (2009) • Savannah River Winds,
North Augusta, South Carolina (2010) • Virginia Wind Symphony,
Norfolk, Virginia (2011) • Lone Star Symphonic Band,
Houston, Texas (2012) • Lake Oswego Millennium Concert Band,
Lake Oswego, Oregon (2013) • Concord Band,
Concord, Massachusetts (2013) • East Texas Symphonic Band,
Longview, Texas (2014) • Metropolitan Wind Symphony,
Boston, Massachusetts (2015) • Sierra Nevada Wind Orchestra,
Gold River, California (2015) • Montgomery County Concert Band,
Hatfield, Pennsylvania (2017) • Waukesha Area Symphonic Band,
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin (2017) • Carrollton Wind Symphony,
Frisco, Texas (2017) • Buffalo Niagara Concert Band,
Buffalo, New York (2018) • Fairfax Wind Symphony,
Fairfax, Virginia (2019) • The Woodlands Concert Band,
The Woodlands, Texas (2021) • The Heart of Texas Concert Band,
San Antonio, Texas (2022) • The First Coast Wind Symphony,
Jacksonville, Florida (2023)
The Sudler International Composition Competition The Sudler International Composition Competition is a biennial competition for wind band composition. The following are the winners of the competition since its inception in 1983:
Sousa/Ostwald Award ==References==